Android, Samsung Smartphones Popular, iPhone 4S Boosts Apple

Of the 3,000 people surveyed by comScore, 25.5 percent of smartphone users in the U.S. had a Samsung device, and 46.3 percent of smartphones were running the Android OS in the three-month period ending Oct. 31. An Android-based Samsung smartphone is the device to beat, according to Friday stats from comScore.

 

Google's Android OS saw a 4.4 percent increase in the U.S., though, jumping from 41.9 percent to 46.3 percent between July and October. Apple's iOS came in second with a 1 percent increase to 28.1 percent. Samsung's share, however, doesn't represent any sort of increase. It had 25.5 percent back in July, too. The only handset maker to see an increase was Apple, which came in at number four with 10.8 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, up 1.3 percent. Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, hit store shelves on Oct. 14. RIM, Microsoft, and Symbian made the top five, but all three saw a market share drop, the largest of which went to RIM with a 4.5 percent decline to 17.2 percent.
LG was in second place with 20.6 percent, followed by Motorola with 13.6 percent. RIM rounded out the top five with 6.6 percent, a 1 percent drop.About 90 million people in the U.S. had smartphones between July and October, a 10 percent increase from the previous three months.

What were they doing with those devices? Texting was the most popular activity, with 71.8 percent people participating. That was followed by using the browser (44 percent), using downloaded apps (43.8 percent), accessing a social networking site or blog (32.3 percent), playing games (29.2 percent), and listening to music (21.2 percent).

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